Wednesday, September 23, 2015

After over 10 years
of research the Global Learning Framework™ is being launched as a six part
course outside of the authority of academia.

Back in 1998 when I
was launching eLearning companies, ghost writing analysts papers on LMSs and
running NYC technology center I had serious doubts about the theories and methods
of Adult Learning and corporate learning technologies and methods. It was a
time of the birth of network technology. Learning was no longer to be the
trickle-down forced-indexed based drill-and-kill we were taught.The human race had finally invented a way to for
globally collaboration (learning) to take place in a way that completely
bypassed corporate, academic and authoritarian structures.

As jumpstart speaker
in the 1998 international eLearning conference I coined the phrase “Search Learning”
that pointed out that the Web is not indexed like text a book and that both
curriculum design and learning technology will have to change into a way humans
naturally learn, collaboratively. This meant a massive investment in technical
and strategic paradigms for the academic and learning industries, so it was
simply ignored.

By 2003 I shifted
my attention to the NGO world of developing transformational lessons of US Homeless
Women and African groups. By 2010 an analysis of Adult Learning Theory left me
stunned with substandard research filled self-justifying syntax, inexcusable
poor research and generalizations that demand a Scientology like faith that
came from the popular published professors of major academic institutions. Leading
Institution professor were making tidy sums with research that would of gotten them
fired in any of my client companies. Brookfield 1995 paper “Storming the
Citadel – Reading Theory Critically” address the problems in academic learning
theory however it does not cover the dire consequences of academia delivering
graduates with so little moral fabric. Graduates that can fleece counties of
trillions, war for oil fields, and 100,000 suicides over GMO small farm deals.

While the academic
bubble continued these self-justify theories of transformation and “Relativeness”
an entirely separate world in the streets using the ideas of Malcolm Knowles,
Pablo Frieri and John Dewey with educators / volunteers were doing the real transformational
work with literacy and life skills programs. In the streets, personal and
cultural frameworks were not “relative” they were the driving motivational
tools for personal development. Character development was far more important
than workforce competence development. Concurrent to elites theory lectures
movies such as “Freedom Writers” and “Precious” show the public what it takes
for real transform needs to take place. I have replicated the methods of these
movies with remarkable results. I refer this work in the Global Learning
Framework course lessons.

Yet quietly tucked
away is the research for Yale Baby Lab that definitively illustrates the
toddler from birth understand right from wrong, values and how every piece of
content is wrapped in context.

Of course while all
of this is taking place by 2007 the entire world wired itself together in a
Global learning collaborative experience that could care less of anything to do
with academia. With no assessment or test Google served up massive content
within personal context. Here the tables were completely turned, it was the
content that was rated and not the learner. With US and African academic yield
and a combined unemployment, or under-employment a cry for re thinking academic
theory and methods is urgently now.

In the streets
educators knew that common core in uncommon core was nothing more that academia
as an industry. The truth was that the people of the world were well on the way
evolving the Collaborative Core. We as strategic and instruction designers had
better adopt to integrating our lessons into this world no matter how out of
control is seems. Tragically the APA religionist pushes the replicating of
mistaken theory of the past on graduate students who are forced to create
thesis of religions agreement to finish a $50,000 sheepskin. The rivers of the
world’s knowledge are waiting to burst through the gateways of smart boards and
smart phones in every teen’s pocket.

The human race
figured out how to learn collaboratively on a global bases the same way we learned
in caves and mentored our young in the fields.African learning is social, and perhaps that is hard for the
authoritarian to control. Ironically it was in 1927 when Lindeman flagged the
flawed subject learning curriculum should be experiential learning and reminded
us the “Learning is a Social” experience.

1.We need a Global Learning Framework that
clearly defines how we learn tribally/collaboratively that any system designer,
teacher or mentor can hang a lesson on that is 100% relevant to the learner.

2.We need Personal Learning Framework that
clearly defines how we take in the world, figure it out and create. We need a personal
Learning Framework that embraces personal character development along with cultural
and personal values, not sanitize them out. These methods must enrich the human
experience in a way Blooms and other academic taxonomies deny. The human
experience is not Dr. Spock world of pure intellect in denial of human emotion.
Here is where clarity is needed on how context is more important than content and
how we do curriculum design, something and teen with smart phone knows.

3.We need a Transformation Learning Framework
that is not for elite Ph.D. in Ivy League schools but for the people of the
world who must be provided with the experience necessary to lift them selves
out of trauma and poverty.

Finally we need
theory to be united with methods that anyone can understand and use at any
level of society. Theory and method needs to define how we personally change
the global experience while at the same time the world changes us. Dewey’
democracy in learning is so spot on that the world of drill and kills is dead.

It is intentional that
I launch the Global Learning Framework outside of the authoritarian academic
religious institution. While I do own the copyright and trade make of names we
truly open it to the field of research and people in the trenches doing the
real work. Over the coming week I will publish five more lessons along with the
curriculum that I used in testing the methods Africa, US schools and US urban
poor. All papers are readily available without charge on Academia.edu,
SlideShare and our Global Learning Framework Community.